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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Clarence dedicate to his date in "Be My Valentine"?

2. In "Animal Farm" where do the narrator and her boyfriend drive to?

3. Where do Mira's friends take her the night before her wedding in "The Bachelorette Party"?

4. Who is the last person the narrator needs to be intimate with in "The Godfather"?

5. What is the narrator nervous about in "Nervous"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe what happens to Mira before she marries her husband in "The Bachelorette Party".

2. Describe the narrator's alter ego in "Nervous".

3. What happens to the narrator in "Sock It To Me" that changes her life?

4. Describe how Yardley and Clarence meet in "Be My Valentine".

5. In "A Time For Change" what is Bridget upset with her husband Drake about?

6. Describe the narrator and Norman's relationship in "The Godfather".

7. Describe the setting of "The Diary".

8. What does the author of "If You Were Here Right Now" tell her addressee?

9. What happens in "The Barbershop"?

10. What does the pulled over couple tell the police officer they were doing in "The Interstate"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast "Nervous" and "Wrong Number" and the role of repressed sexual desire in the narrator of "Nervous" and Amber in "Wrong Number".

Essay Topic 2

Analyze and discuss "The Diary" and what Zane is suggesting about time and age in relationship to love and intimacy.

Essay Topic 3

Describe and explain how the content of "The Valley of the Freaks" parallels the content of "The Sex Chronicles: Shattering the Myth" in that both increase their sexually inappropriate content.

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